"Among 450 traumatic-brain-injury patients, 8% developed post-traumatic seizures…" — Dr. Tarun Garg (#c1396)

Card #c1396IR // #c1396SynthesisThesis

Among 450 traumatic-brain-injury patients, 8% developed post-traumatic seizures — with frontal-temporal lobar contusion, linear skull fracture, and injury severity as the independent risk factors; patients with the most severe injuries (GCS 3–8) had a 19.9% seizure rate, over four times the baseline risk.

— In our words · Source: Post Traumatic Seizure: A Prospective Study (Dr. Tarun Garg)

[Use when]

Triage by predictor, not by population — 8% overall hides 20% in the severe-injury subgroup.

[Why it matters]

It gives a concrete seizure-risk model for TBI patients — scan findings plus severity score predict who needs seizure prophylaxis, not guesswork.